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Catherine Cortez Masto: “Seniors in line needing food because they couldn't get…”

Featuring: Catherine Cortez Masto, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Nevada

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And we were seeing lines to our food banks in northern Nevada. These were lines that I hadn't seen since the pandemic. And the stories were horrific. Seniors in line needing food because they couldn't get access to the food that they usually would get at the federal level. One man came and refused to say who he was because he was embarrassed and said, I shouldn't be here, but he needed the food. (01:02–01:12)

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Asserts that seniors were in food bank lines due to lack of access to federal food assistance.

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